Evangelicals and sex

We have before us Judge Roy Moore, twice-removed Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court and currently candidate for the US Senate in the same state, who stands accused of fondling a 14-year-old girl when he was in his thirties, several decades ago. This is the same Judge Moore who was thrown off the State Supreme …

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Big election night for Va. Dems

The Democrats won all the statewide races in Virginia on Tuesday, from Governor to Lieutenant Governor to Attorney General. That in itself is pretty impressive, but here’s what’s downright astonishing: the party may very well take control of the Virginia House of Delegates. That’s the lower house of the legislature, the one in which Republicans …

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Mass shootings and Congress

It seems apparent that Congress will do nothing to control the gun violence in this country, even after two mass shootings which killed 84 people within six weeks. It’s disheartening, to say the least. We have got to get more pro-gun control Senators and Representatives into the Congress, men and women who are not beholden …

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